Summertime... and the Readin' is easy!

Summer READING Program

School's out for summer, the boys are back in town and summer programming kicks off NOW!  Don't miss out on fun, reading and FREE BOOKS!  Every child signed up for the Summer Reading Program will be given a free book to start the summer off right and another free book when they finish the program!  We also have fun bookmarks, great performers and free bumperstickers when you reach the halfway point of the summer reading program!

Every Thursday at 2pm (except for the week of July 4th (No show) and July 27 (when the perfromers will be at Roberts Park for Wild Rose Days!). we will feature a different performer at the WIld Rose Community Center, Singer comedians, magicians, comedy acts!  We'll kick off this summer with David Landau - a fantastic performer who's music and comedy will have you singin', dancin' and laughin'!

1000 Books Before Kindergarten

This summer we are also starting 1000 Books Before Kindergarten (or thereabouts).  This is for children who haven't started Kinergarten, and for their parents to read to them.  Now it sounds like a lot of books, but if you read 3 books everyday, maybe at bedtime, you would have 1000 books read before a year was up!  Since we want this pto be a program about early literacy and reading to childrento give them an advantage in life - we will allow children to begin even if they are in 4k and finish up to 6 years old!

Upon signing up, children will receive a free book bag, to keep their library books in a special place, and a free book!  Eve4ry 50 books they will receive a sticker, and every 100 books a special "I read a hundred books" sticker!  When they finish 1000 books, each child will receive another free book!

Let's put the "reading" back in the Summer Reading Program!  Studies have shown that children who read over the summer retain more of waht they learned the previous year.  No summer drip off!

Read for yourself - read for your children! 

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